Hernandez v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

A jury convicted appellant of murder and assessed punishment at fifty (50) years confinement. The Court of Appeals reversed the conviction holding that reputation testimony from two witnesses, based solely on conversations with others within the community about appellant’s prior bad acts, violated the rule of Wagner v. State, 687 S.W.2d 303 (Tex.Cr.App.1985) (opinion on rehearing). Hernandez v. State, 767 S.W.2d 902 (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi 1989) (opinion on original submission). They also decided, after the filing of a State’s petition for…